Clothes-line pulley and bracket



(No Model.)

0.LUND. CLOTHES LINE PULLEY AND BRACKET. No. 459,142. Patented Sept. 8, 1891.

a3 j Z %ZMM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR LUND, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-LINE PULLEY AND BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,142, dated September 8, 1891.

Application filed June 3, 1891- Serial No. 394,920. (No model.)

To all whom it" may concern: side, from which pintles a project laterally Be it known that I, OSCAR LUND, of Long for securing the block or frame in its suplsland City, in the county of Queens and port. The pintles a may be formed integral State of New York, have invented a new and with or fixed to the ears, as shown in Figs. 1 5 useful Improvement in Clothes-Line Pulleys and 2, or they may be formed by a screw and Brackets, of which the following is a O, extending loosely through openings in the specification. ears, as shown in Figs. 3 and at.

My invention relates to an improvement The supporting-bracket consists of a back in clothes-line pulleys and brackets for supplate D,provided with holes (I for the recepro porting a clothes-line from a point within tion of suitable fastening devices, the said easy reach from a window. \Vhere outside back plate having forwardly-projecting shutters or blinds are used, it has been the flanges or ears E at its opposite sides. The practice to locate the clothes-line pulleys beflanges or ears E are provided with sockets low or to one side of the window-frame bee for the reception of the pintles on'the block :5 cause of the narrow space between the path or frame. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and of the swinging shutter and the side of the 2 the sockets are open at the top to admitthe frame, and the distance of the pulley from pintles into their seats, while in the form the window has often been required to be so shown in Figs. 3 and 4: the sockets e are great as to be very inconvenient a d annoyclosed and one of them is provided with an 20 ing to the operator. internal screw-thread to register with the My present invention contemplates the threaded end of the screw O, whichis intended construction of a pulley and bracket, the pulto be inserted through one socket 6 through ley block or frame having a removable enthe perforated ears on the pulley block or gagementwith the bracket, so that thebracket frame and screw into the opposite socket e.

25 may be permanently engaged with the win- By constructing the block and its support dow-frame at the side of the sash between separable it is feasible to make the supportthe frame and the path of the swinging shuting-bracket so thin or shallow as to be out of ter and the block may be adjusted when the the path of the swinging blindor shutter, and shutter is open andremoved when theshutter at the same time the pulley may be made 30 is to be closed. large enough to operate well.

A practical embodiment of my invention is \Vhat I claim is represented in the accompanying drawings, 1. The combination, with the pulley block in whichor frame, of its supporting-bracket, the said Figure 1 is aviewof thepulley andbracket pulley-block and supporting-bracket being 35 in front elevation, the pulley frame or block provided the one with pintles and the other being engaged with the bracket as in use. with sockets, in which the pintles may be re- Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the movably seated, substantially as set forth. same. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of 2. The combination, with the pulley block the pulley and bracket, showing a different or frame provided with ears projecting from 4.0 form of pintle. Fig. etisavertical transverse its sides, of a bracket or support provided section of the same; and Fig. 5 isa partial with flanges or ears projecting outwardly horizontal section through a window sash, from its back, the said flanges or ears being frame, shutter, and wall of the building adprovided with sockets, and pintles extending jacent to the frame. laterally from the ears on the block and re- 45 The pulley block or frame is denoted by A, movably secured in the sockets in the supthe pulley-sheave at being fixed to an axle a, porting-bracket, substantially as set forth. journaled in the sides of the frame A and OSCAR LUND. provided with an operating-crank B, fixed to Vitnesses: one end. The block or frame A has a pair FRED HAYNES,

50 of ears aiprojecting upwardlyone fromeach FRED O. FISCHER. 

